Daniel Sierra presents Oscillate, his thesis animation done at School of Visual Arts. The animation was done purely using Houdini’s VEX language, music with Reason, Compositing with Nuke and rendered in After [...]

Andreas Giesen presents his new VFX Reel mostly done using Houdini

Learn how to create basic ferns, trees, and plants with LSystem sequencing in Houdini

Side Effects Software, has announced the immediate release of Houdini 12.5 which offers a wealth of new and enhanced features including Cloud FX , Ocean FX, OpenVDB volume sculpting tools [...]

It’s Tutorial time with this almost two hours free video tutorial about Procedural modeling in Houdini, from modeling, uv strategies and automatically places objects into a scene. More  Houdini Video [...]

We are proud to share with you this interview with a really talented FX TD, Luca Zappala. Actually, Luca worked for very famous companies such as Dneg, Pixomondo, MPC and [...]

Michiel Hagedoorn helps you to understand everything about cloth simulation in Houdini with this in depth video tutorial

Jeff Wagner, Senior Technology Consultant at Side Effects and Michiel Hagedoorn a Senior Software Developer at SIde Effect, talk about the new Bullet rigid body solver introduced in Houdini in [...]

Learn how to create a disintegration effect in Houdini using an animated noise map with Rohan Dalvi

Creating and efficient lighting and to optimize the Render Output drivers and organizing complex render dependencies in Houdini

Learn about everything related to light in Houdini, IES Light Maps and attenuation options, Light Portals and HDRI maps with this one hour video tutorial.

Alejandro Echeverry shared a nice smoke simulation on Houdini with various turbulence values.

Hanlong Liu  presents his new FX demo reel featuring some interesting water effect

Learn how to create a corn maze in a a spooky halloween night using instancing in Houdini. the complete scene can be downloaded here

Saqib Ashraf shared with us an impressive cloth demo with a boxer made for Siggraph 2012 with Houdini

Razky just made a really nice water simulation with Houdini. Check it out :

Learn how to use the Mantra Surface Shader with the Material Gallery and understand then VOP Network in this new Houdini video tutorial.

FX Artist, Rohan Dalvi shares with the FX community a great R&D test in order to recreate the famous Plexus Script for After Effect with Houdini. The final result is [...]